Williamson blitz in vain as Sunrisers slip

Shane Watson's Chennai Super Kings overcame a late onslaught from Kane Williamson and Yusuf Pathan to beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by four runs in an Indian Premier League thriller.

Kiwi Williamson scored a classy 84 off 51 balls and Yusuf fought a bad back to hit a rapid 45 off 27 before Hyderabad were restricted to 6-178 in reply to Chennai's 3-182.

Australia's Watson, whose explosive 51-ball century had helped Chennai beat Rajasthan Royals on Friday, could only contribute nine runs this time.

Rashid Khan nearly pulled off victory for Hyderabad, smashing 17 off just four deliveries, including a six and a four off Dwayne Bravo in the final over.

With six required off the last ball, Bravo bowled a perfect yorker to Rashid and conceded only a single. The win took Chennai to the top of the table with eight points from five matches.

Hyderabad are fourth with six points after losing their second game in five matches.

Earlier, Ambati Rayudu (79 off 37) and Suresh Raina (54 not out off 43) lifted Chennai's total after being put into bat.

Hyderabad restricted Chennai to 2-54 by the halfway mark, but conceded 95 runs in the last seven overs against some clean hitting by No. 4 batsman Rayudu.

Australian quick Billy Stanlake returned figures of 0-38 off four overs for Hyderabad.

Rashid did well with the bat but, as a legspinner, he again proved expensive (1-49) despite getting Watson's opening partner Faf du Plessis (11) stumped off his first ball.

Rayudu's last 48 runs came off just 16 balls and he smashed nine fours and four sixes before getting run out in a mix-up with Raina in the 17th over.

Raina raised his first half-century in this year's IPL and hit five fours and two sixes before MS Dhoni gave the innings a perfect finish with a 12-ball unbeaten 25.

Hyderabad missed injured Shekhar Dhawan in the top order and slumped to 22-3 inside the batting powerplay with medium fast Deepak Chahar (3-15) claiming three wickets in his first three overs.

But Williamson and Yusuf took charge in the latter half of the innings with a 79-run stand off 45 balls before both fell in successive overs.

Williamson, who hit six fours and five sixes, was outfoxed by Bravo off a slower delivery in the 18th over and Ravindra Jadeja plucked a brilliant two-handed diving catch in the deep.

Yusuf followed Williamson when he skied a catch off medium fast Shardul Thakur before Rashid's little cameo couldn't take Hyderabad all the way.

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